A brand new video tour of my craft art room and craft studio space, including my fairly new planner desk, art desk, storage and art resources.

Anyway, hi all, how the hell are you? Long time no blog eh? I have been so busy with working from home and being back in school part time that it's only now in the summer holidays that I have found time to blog.

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​Hi all, today I am sharing a recent art journal with me mixed media and collage video from a Facebook Live from my art and journaling group: Kerrymay Makes A Mess 

The video shows you step by step how I created a zetti art style collage in a Teesha Moore style.

If you want to journal along with me or have a go at a later time you will need some of the resources that I used:

Acrylic paints, an old credit card style card, gold paints, a magazine with models in it and interesting bits of papers with unusual bright patterns plus scissors and glue. A chalk or paint pen would also be ideal for the lettering and a black pen for outlining. ​ I used a Uni-pin pen, but a biro will work too.

With most of the World in lockdown, quarantine and isolation, I thought it would be a good time to collate a list of links, ideas and resources to keep you busy, creative and to occupy your minds during this period of 'downtime'.

​I will be covering free art classes, Facebook groups that promote creative journaling, the best of You Tube tutorials, ideas for children, hand lettering freebies and the best free resources and entertainment from my blog and online.

​​Hi all, well what a week! I hope that you are all staying safe. I am thinking of each and every one of you xx

Today I am creating vintage collage sheets using a variety of ephemera, die cuts and papers. These can then be used as master boards that you can scan and print and reprint as you wish. You could also edit them in image software to make them black and white or sepia toned. They make great happy mail to send out or to use in Junk Journals, creative journaling and art journals.

These were created for a challenge over in my Facebook Art Journaling Group 

• Kerrymay Makes A Mess

For free vintage ephemera downloads have a look at my blog post here

• Free Vintage Ephemera Sites

I hope that the video inspires you to create your own. 

It's been an awfully long time since I created any art at all, especially a mixed media collage. So with that in mind I decided it was time to get out the paints, books and glue and get creating.

I had already created the background using a Gelli Plate so was ready to go straight in to creating a collage. I wanted it to have a slight 'zetti style', but with a more vintage seaside vibe. 

Have a look at the creative process in the video below. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel for future videos.

​100 Art Journal Prompts and Journaling Ideas to inspire your creativity in your art journals, journaling and creative journals and to help pass time whilst in isolation and lockdown.

​Use them however you like, literally; for art, painting, watercolour, mixed media, journal prompts or photographs for memory keeping.

I often find myself getting out the watercolours and being totally stuck for inspiration. I hope these words help to spark your inner creativity and muse.

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Tiny art journals and micro journaling has really taken off this year.  I got this tiny tn (travelers notebook) from the UKPA Big Meet in January and wasn't sure how to use it.  I then saw a lot of people were using theirs for art journaling and mixed media, so of course I had to join in. 

​I have loved creating collage and watercolour art journal pages in this.  It is much simpler than using a large journal as it is much less intimidating.  I never struggle with what to put on the page, I just get out my supplies and create.  I can whip up a journal page in less than 10 minutes.

Below is a flip through of my fully completed micro tn.  I had so much fun using this, that I now have started 2 more!

Hard work does indeed reap rewards, I had a great year last year and wanted to incorporate working hard and rewarding myself into both my journaling and my Word of the Year for 2019.  Last year I focused on the word 'Happy' and it was a great success.  You can see more on last years word here Word of the Year 2018.

Self Care is so important, if you don't look after yourself then you will struggle in other aspects of your life.  I love adding a bit of self love into my journaling as you can see from my self care and mood tracking journaling pages.
Self Care and Mood Tracking ideas in your Bullet Journal.

This years pages are an extension of this idea, but with the added notion of working hard to receive it.